this morning i was hunting in a park near home, when i came on another detectorist,hunting with a ctx3030 he told i was wasting my time with my inferior detector and he had cleaned out the park so far.i was using the 705 xterra medium frequency coil.he claimed $40.00 found,i found only $18.20 following in his footsteps.i can't afford his one.so which is best,emubob
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your wasting your time.
- Thread starter emubob
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stay with the Terra . I don't think it's the machine at all. We all miss stuff no matter what machine we have. Especially if you are not able to see your own tracks and sometimes even if you are able to see them. Last year my nephew and I hunted a Civil War campsite. He uses an Ace250 and I use an Xterra 70. We found bullets in some places and no bullets in other places where we thought they should have been. We both hit this one area several times and was about to dimiss it as nothing being there. I made what I thought was going to be one last pass over the area weeks later. Suddenly I got a nice signal. Found a nice pulled .58 caliber Minnie. I called my nephew over and we both started finding more bullets in an area where we thought we had searched really well. We dug right around 40 bullets out of that area. I think the reason we missed them the first several times is because we couldn't see where we had been. It was grass and we both are pretty bad about wanting to follow the same path we have been over. When I ran my Ace250 all of the time I found a ton of stuff with it. I wanted something that would go deeper and a really lightweight machine so I settled on the Xterra 70. Not sure if I get any deeper because what I have found has not been any deeper than my finds with the Ace250 but I do feel likes it's lighter in weight and that to me is worth it. I do feel like he pulls more from the ground than I do just because he digs everything. I am kinda more selective about what I dig even though I know if I dug everything I could find more good stuff. We can all buy "better" machines but in the end it all boils down to who swings their coil in the right place and who digs almost everything.
bob.oz
Active member
Ignorance is bliss/ Arrogance is everywhere!
As they say...off by an inch, off by a mile. Familiarity and time spent using your MD can overshadow cost.The 705 is a great MD and will not waste your time.
But I got to say,... WoW!!!! 48 bucks in coin between the two of you from a park. I'm guessing large denomination coins?
As they say...off by an inch, off by a mile. Familiarity and time spent using your MD can overshadow cost.The 705 is a great MD and will not waste your time.
But I got to say,... WoW!!!! 48 bucks in coin between the two of you from a park. I'm guessing large denomination coins?
7centsworth
Well-known member
I like it when people say it is hunted out and then I dig coins while they are watching me.
JimmyCT
Well-known member
25 years ago I was hunting in a park and this old timer saw me hunting. He stopped and proceeded to tell me how him and his buddies wiped the park clean. He continued his ignorance and I just smiled at him. In fact, I started agreeing with him. Finally he thought he knocked sense into me and left. 25 years later, I still pull Barber & Mercury dimes, Buffalo & "V" nickels and wheat cents from this park. 
When people make that statement to me, it makes me hunt the area even more. To this day, I am still amazed at what comes out this park. Granted it wasn't like what it use to be, but if you learn your machine ( like you learn anything you put your heart and soul into) you will pull things out of an area that has been beaten to death. The machine you possess is one fine piece of equipment. Learn the machine well and it will reward you. You also proved this very thing by finding things that he walked right over. Just smile, carry on and be well.
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When people make that statement to me, it makes me hunt the area even more. To this day, I am still amazed at what comes out this park. Granted it wasn't like what it use to be, but if you learn your machine ( like you learn anything you put your heart and soul into) you will pull things out of an area that has been beaten to death. The machine you possess is one fine piece of equipment. Learn the machine well and it will reward you. You also proved this very thing by finding things that he walked right over. Just smile, carry on and be well. X2
7centsworth said:
mapper65
Member
earthlypotluck said:
We've made it a habit to typically just tell people when they ask if we are finding anything to just say "lots of pull tabs and a few pennies here and there".
Two years ago we were at an old park and a guy came along and said "there used to be a guy that detected here nearly every day" I guess to insinuate that we wouldn't find anything. We gave him our typical speech all the while Hotrod53 had a Morgan dollar in his pocket, my mom had an 1865 two cent piece and an indian in hers and I had a merc and an indian in mine.
We are never discouraged when people say they have detected a place or a place is hunted out. In every case we still always find something. A place is not hunted out until we feel that we've hunted it out and even then it's questionable.
earthlypotluck said:25 years ago I was hunting in a park and this old timer saw me hunting. He stopped and proceeded to tell me how him and his buddies wiped the park clean. He continued his ignorance and I just smiled at him. In fact, I started agreeing with him. Finally he thought he knocked sense into me and left. 25 years later, I still pull Barber & Mercury dimes, Buffalo & "V" nickels and wheat cents from this park.
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7centsworth said:
When you consider most use an 8" or 10,11 inch coil covering acres of land ..it doesn't surprise me they missed some ground. no matter their swing coverage .....
This includes me, you and everyone else who swings a coil..You never cover all of the ground............ and if your of the mind set you do ?? I'll just not even comment on that...
Consider all of the variables. Differences in frequency, detector technologies, coil sizes and configurations, whether or not any discrimination was employed and more play a part in how effectively a site has been covered. Add to that each detectorists familiarity and technique with their machines, and it's pretty easy to see how unlikely that everything has been found that can be.
atomicscott
Active member
Sounds like Richard Cabeza to me!
Illinoismic
New member
I ran with the minelab safari normally in a park I always hunt... I had some issues and couldn't take it... I took my back up detector.. a pioneer 505 lol... where the safari and at pro had been over a hundred times that little pioneer 505 still managed to pull out a 64 half dollar that both had missed... it matters only to the person using the machine.. every working detector will pick up metal.... only difference is how many special and extra features it has on it.
